It's been a shamefully long time since my last post, however I do have a genuine reason! I've been without a camera for a couple of weeks and there seems to be little point writing in an art blog with no pictures to show.So here below in pictures is some of the work I've been doing on this project since my last post, showing the development of my ideas, to the point of trials for my final idea. I have now made the final image but have decided not to reveal it on here until after the competition.

Research

Trying out ideas

Fabric of Time - I saw an image of the fabric of time and wanted to use it but couldn't work out how. Perhaps digitally might have been a better way forward with this one.

A stitch in time saves nine! This was made with ink and watercolour on grey board. I liked this one but didn't know how I could develop it.

I love using letters and type so I began to play around with the actual word Time.

My nephew and me made a time machine out of a plastic bottle and some balloons. We haven't got it to work yet, perhaps I need to install a clock? I then drew it in ink and watercolour.

This (left) was the idea that I liked best and wondered about printing the letters somehow, and wondering if I could do a lino cut without them breaking. My tutor also liked this idea and suggested that it might look good in letterpress - which was the solved my musings! He however introduced some further problems as he thought that it would look good life size... that's about 6 or 7 foot and won't fit in the press!

Final Idea Development

I went through all the ideas I'd come up with to make sure that the letterpress clock was my favourite before gingerly going to discuss the possibility with the print technician.

I felt I needed to try out some other types of clock in letters before deciding on the long case clock. The squareness of the long case clock was the deciding factor in the end. It suits letterpress very well.

I decided that I would like to send in the original for the competition if possible and the briefed size is A0. I therefore had to scale the clock down to find how wide it needed to be at A0 height.